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2026-04-24,
of penguins and stages

Nightingale, Friday, 24 April 12026 HE
2026-04-24 | 26D24 | 2026-114 | 2461155
2026-W17-5 | Q2 | Verano

headlight, San José, California

2013-06-29 – Apple iPhone 4
headlight, San José, California

Wes – “Alane” ↗

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my initial forays into Linux weren’t all that successful – from the various magazines at the time, I’d managed to get hold of install CDs for Debian and SUSE as well as grabbing a leftover PC – and had absolutely no luck getting either to install – hunting around for another distro to try out and stumbled across Gentoo and the idea of a “source based distro” not only sounded great but felt like the “proper” way to do Linux – with a Stage 1 CD and the Gentoo Handbook in a second TTY, I breezed through the install process (well, aside from waiting on all the compiling going on) – to this day, I still have no idea why I had an easier time installing Gentoo Stage 1 over user-friendlier distros

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